Person:John Gay (57)

The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society By Kentucky Historical Society, pg. 74:

The children of John Gay, Jr., and Sarah Lockridge follow: 1st Margaret, born Sept., 1771; 2nd Mary, born January, 1774; 3rd Robert, born June, 1776; 4th Agnes, born February, 1779; 5th James Gay, born Nov., 1781; 6th Sarah Gay, born-April, 1784; 7th John, born Nov., 1786; 8th Rdbekah Gay, "born May, 1790; 9th William Dunlap Gay, born May, 1793; 10th Samuel Gay, born March, 1796 and llth Kin- kead Gay, born Oct., 1799. Of this large family of children reared in Woodford county, only three raised families in the county, viz.: Robert, Sarah and John Gay.

John Gay, the 7th, married Catherine Claggett. The Claggetts were prominent Marylanders, and related to Bishop Claggett (first Episcopal Bishop in the United States). They had Mary D. Gay, born in 1818, married Guy Hamilton Kinkead, born in Woodford but moved to Brown county, Ohio; Sarah Gay, born in 1819, married Edwin Wright, son of Col. William and Annie Jackson Wright, of Bourbon county; Margaret Gay, born in 1821, married Dr. Robert Henry Wasson, of Pisgah (whose .parents came from Greencastle, Pa.). She was his second wife, and they had Rebecca Wright Wasson, born in 1851, married Dr. Robt. Singleton Hart; Kate Claggett Wasson, born 1856, married Peter G. Powell, Sr.; Caroline Douglas Wasson, born in 1858, married J. Wilmore Garrett; Robert Herbert Wasson, Jr., born in 1861, married Mary Talbott Farra; and John T. Wasson, born in 1864, married Alma Brooks.

John Thomas Gay, son of John Gay, 7th, and Catherine Claggett, born in 1823, married Sallie Branham and had: Elizabeth, who married John S. Hanna, son of Wm. Chenoworth Hanna and Margaret Smith; Anna S. Gay, who married David Hunt James, of Lexington; James Gay, married Maria Cotton and had Ruth Parish Gay, married Robert S. Berryman, and Georgia Cotton Gay, married James Viley Mc- Ferran; Mattie B. Gay, married William Swope; Lelia Gay, married John H. Field, son of Col. Thomas Field and Higbee; Minnie B. Gay, married

Garrett Watts; John Thomas Gay, Jr., married Mattie Bridgeforth; Robert Hicks Gay, married first Florence Bowman, second Eva Owens Nuckols,

daughter of Samuel Nuckols and

Wasson; Haf.lie Gay, married Dr. Ben- jamine Parrish, son of Thomas Ware Parish and Kate Rogers.

Elizabeth Gay, born in 1825, daughter of John Gay 7th and Catherine Clag- gett, married Elijah A. Hopkins and lived in Brown county, Ohio.

James Robert Gay, born in 1828, son of John and Catherine Gay, married Catherine Lamne and they had: Milton W. Gay, James Lamne Gay, Margaret Gay, who married George C. Bird, William D. Gay, who married Virginia Farra, Thos. J. Gay, Mary Lee Gay, who married Newton B. Mitchell, John Horace Gay, who married Florence Powell, Carrie Rutherford Gay, who married J. Wilmore Garrett, and Kath- erine, who married John W. Redding.

William Douglas Gay, born in 1830. son of John and Catherine Claggett Gay, married Elizabeth Hume Graves, and they had Benj. Patton Gay, who married Elva Gatewood, Jacob Douglas Gay, who married Lucy Field Graddy, Agnes Gay, born in 1833, married Horace Ardenger, of Lexington, Mo.

Watson Gay, born in 1835, died about 1855.

Catharine C. Gay, daughter of John and Catherine, was born in 1837, but never married.

Rebecca C. Gay, born in 1839, daughter of John and Catherine, married first Lee Bird, of Shelby county,

second Samuel Wentworth, of Lexington, Mo.